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From: mckim@mildred.lerc.nasa.gov (Jim McKim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Which 386 UNIX binaries run on which 386 UNIXs ?
Keywords: UNIX, 386
Message-ID: <1990Sep5.171859.21535@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 5 Sep 90 17:18:59 GMT
References: <1990Sep3.095529.29411@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au>
Reply-To: mckim@mildred.lerc.nasa.gov (Jim McKim)
Organization: NASA/Lewis Research Center, Cleveland
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In article <1990Sep3.095529.29411@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au> exnirad@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Nirad Sharma) writes:
>I am running SCO XENIX 2.3.2 ('386 version) and am wondering if some binaries
>from an ESIX system will run on my system, more specifically gcc, emacs and
>X11R4 as found at 36.102.0.32 (I got the site from an article posted here).
>
>Furthermore, could someone please explain whose binaries run on whose 386-UNIXs?

There have been comments here recently that ESIX binaries don't run well
under IX.  I tried running some on a system here (Intel) - no luck.
I get a "bad system call" error.  It looks like ESIX has some additional or
different system calls in their kernel that aren't in other 386 unixes.  The
effect seems to be: ESIX will probably run other ABI conformant binaries but
stuff created under ESIX is not so portable (GRRR!).

Somebody let me know if I am wrong.
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